Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 2 | The noticeable familial disruption occurring in other cases is particularly interesting because it reflects social role expectations of women , where the primary role traditionally is that of homemaker , family manager , and housewife ( Oakley , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | The main resistance to the Parents ' Rights Group campaign did not come from the council , where the Labour group effectively factionalized themselves — and their Public Relations Department — into silence . |
| 4 | Land was bought in Meadow Farm Drive , where the present church now stands . |
| 5 | True , Gilels does half-smudge the odd chord but , then , his recording gives the impression of having been put down in a handful of massive musically organic takes , where the new Philips occasionally betrays signs of cutting-room technology . |
| 6 | People frequently give sympathy where it 's not wanted — where the other person perhaps regards themselves as strong , determined , a fighter . |
| 7 | Tai Hing Cotton Mill Ltd. v. Kamsing Knitting Factory ( 1978 P.C. ) established that the same principle applies where the innocent party immediately accepts the anticipatory breach as a repudiation of the contract . |
| 8 | There are just two qualifications to this last point , i.e. which apply where the innocent party immediately accepts the repudiation . |
| 9 | Rates have fallen most sharply in the South East , where the going rate now averages £3.80 a week , £1.40 less than last year . |
| 10 | In doing so , they reminded us , 46 years after Labour 's first attorney general , Sir Hartley Shawcross , declared ‘ We are the masters now ’ , where the real mastery still lies . |
| 11 | This opening is very different from the quietly charming first scene of A Month in the Country , where the only thing amiss is Natalia 's bored behaviour . |
| 12 | The conversation drifted to whaling , where the Norwegian record also seemed lacking in compassion and common sense . |
| 13 | Nor is it even very suggestive ; it provides no clues as to why this first phase of class struggle is so much more advanced in Italy ( where the Communist PCI regularly obtains almost a third of the popular vote ) compared with the United States ( where a socialist party hardly exists ) . |
| 14 | He should always be engaged in the early stages of the customer negotiations , where the technical commitment frequently comes up , and any renegotiations on that basis . |
| 15 | Somerville 's procedure subjects would-be MPs to argument , interview , drafting tests and debate , and has some similarities with the selection tests for the Foreign Office or civil service : where the Foreign Office once had a country house , the Conservative party has a motel . |
| 16 | I think I 'll devote my spare time to some sleuthing , to find out where the handsome Miguel really comes from . ’ |
| 17 | The more serious fighting in early July was in Slovenia , notably in the region of the Krsko nuclear power station ( eastern Slovenia ) , where the Slovene authorities also reduced capacity to 25 per cent on July 2 in preparation for a possible emergency shutdown after it was buzzed by military aircraft . |
| 18 | Where the ophthalmic optician subsequently prescribes special corrective appliances solely to correct vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned , and where normal corrective appliances ( ie those prescribed for any other purposes ) can not be used , during this interim period , a Head of Department will refund such costs up to a maximum of £50 . |
| 19 | Hence particular research programmes have generally centred on one of three broad areas of code-switching phenomena : ( 1 ) The formal aspects of code switching , in particular the grammatical mechanisms whereby a bilingual individual can produce a sentence ( or sentence-like utterance ) partly in one language and partly in another , where the respective parts still apparently conform to the rules of the language they are expressed in. ( 2 ) Pragmatic and discoursal aspects of code switching — what factors within a particular encounter motivate speakers to switch and what meanings underlie speakers ' switches . |
| 20 | We are likely to repeat previous styles to get us through the pain , but a point can be reached where the old ways no longer work . |
| 21 | This colonnade carried a classical entablature and above was a plain wall ( where the Medieval triforium normally is to be found ) and above this a row of small clerestory windows . |
| 22 | Where the clear Fountains gently murmur by , |
| 23 | But this applies now even where the particular family no longer conforms to traditional standards and takes account explicitly of the rise of one-parent families in German society . |
| 24 | Eventually the limit is reached where no further packing would be possible and where the configurational entropy therefore vanishes . |
| 25 | Kelsang Tabkay draws in a breath of the still , fresh air : this is home , where the one-time environmentalist now lives the tranquil life of a Buddhist monk . |
| 26 | The character of free-standing sculpture , so noticeable in the figures of the east , is abandoned in the chariot-teams , where the near horse alone is carved in full , heads and necks of the others being attached to it in a kind of receding relief ; but this was a special problem which required a special solution . |
| 27 | where the tense operator past and the existentially quantified variable A are bona fide logical form , but the a_term and qterm structures represent unresolved references and scopings . |
| 28 | These were innovated in the United States , where the innovating exchanges quickly built up a form of " first mover advantage " via endogenous economies of scale , which gave them an impregnable position in the market for their respective instruments within a very short span of time . |
| 29 | But then so might that of the writer of the story , who may be less obedient than the gentile reader immediately recognises . |
| 30 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |